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Technology should be used, not infused with your lifestyle. Use only what is required and spend time with real things.

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A Study in Swiss ðŸ˜œ

Being in Europe for around 8 months, I was wondering what really Switzerland feels like as it is praised by almost everyone as being a beautiful country. So, with a long Easter weekend coming up, I had determined to go and have a look. And it was sure a good visit.
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Stinking summer kick-off

It’s the month of March in the Netherlands, and the summer has kicked off with a lively and stinking start, at least in the countrysides where I stay nearby.

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Fun @ Prison Island

Recently, we had a fun-filled team event at Prison Island. More about it here. It had all sorts of so-called prison cells, each having a unique problem to solve so that you can escape and earn points.

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Biking in Holland

Being in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands (a.k.a. Holland), biking seems to be just as common as the public transport. The bike roads here are quite optimized to be used extensively, whether they run separate or are integrated with the roads for other common vehicles.

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Writer’s block

After a long long time, back to my blog. Seems like it is gathering dust. Somehow I totally missed blogging because of my workload.

A long streak of downs in my profession led me to rethink. Then I thought, maybe this writer’s block causes more block, eventually landing myself into an endless loop of blocks.

I’ll try to post something from now on to unblock the block. Hopefully, this post will remind me to not forget to blog.

Self-driving cars have caught on a serious following already. But they are still in the back seat when it comes to making moral decisions like we humans do (or sometimes don’t).

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Wrap JSON in JSON with Jackson

Normally, I always wrap my JSON objects within a simple parent JSON, which contains only one element which is the JSON being wrapped. Refer this link for more information. Jackson API for Java provides an easy way to do this without creating unnecessary wrapper classes.

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Finally, I have created my long awaited GitHub account. Not many projects, but do check it out.

Installed the entire Qt suite, only to see the QtCreator IDE failing to start? This happened recently with my Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine. I faced some errors related to OpenGL. After hunting around on the web, I stumbled upon the askubuntu forum and got the answer.

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